Bring on the recommendations of teabags which you know are 100% compostable please. We're fed up with piling Tetley's finest up in the kitchen and tearing them open to compost.
I've used this company for about 2 years now. They sell Jeniers loose leaf teas and have an amazing selection to choose from including non caffeine. I order online. Very efficient. I use Scottish breakfast tea and English Mayfair breakfast tea and I mix them together. Both nice on their own too. The used leaves go into the little bin under the sink with compostables.
I had a look on here and it seems my Yorkshire tea bags can be composted in industrial compost heaps, so I'll add the emptied bags to my green council bin. They are plant based, not made from fossil fuels but need high temperatures to decompose.
Clipper string and tag bags are home compostable but at twice the price that I usually pay that's rather expensive.
I'm afraid given the current financial crisis I buy tea bags based on price. I take the tea out in spring & summer but the rest of the year they go in the bin. I collect eggshells with a certain zeal though...I crush them into a large jar then add to the heap.
I haven't found a single type of tea bag that does successfully compost even in my very hot summer bins, they get to mid 80° temps. There was a report last week I think about so called compostable packaging and they found only a tiny % percentage that claimed to be compostable actually was. Apparently it's a lot to do with being able to say something is compostable because it will degrade in the ground, only there is no time limit on how long it takes to degrade. Can't find the report think it was in a paper, they used over a 1000 home composters to test things and also municipal compost sites.
I must say @Wilderbeast that trawling through the info about various tea bags the meaning of the word 'greenwashing' became much clearer to me. It's depressing really, this constant bending of truth these days, from world leaders, through politics, and even the humble tea bag.....🙁
Edited to add: I too saw that report or a similar one. I had been shredding so called compostable wrappings in the paper shredder and wondering why they didn't alter at all in the composting process. I think there are now words added on some wrappings to the effect that they compost in suitable systems, something like that.
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We tried them but we weren't impressed with the taste. Whether that was anything to do with the bag or the tea I'm not sure.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
The used leaves go into the little bin under the sink with compostables.
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I had a look on here and it seems my Yorkshire tea bags can be composted in industrial compost heaps, so I'll add the emptied bags to my green council bin. They are plant based, not made from fossil fuels but need high temperatures to decompose.
Clipper string and tag bags are home compostable but at twice the price that I usually pay that's rather expensive.
Carry on composting whatever you do, and ignore the baiting wherever it pops up.
It's depressing really, this constant bending of truth these days, from world leaders, through politics, and even the humble tea bag.....🙁
Edited to add: I too saw that report or a similar one. I had been shredding so called compostable wrappings in the paper shredder and wondering why they didn't alter at all in the composting process. I think there are now words added on some wrappings to the effect that they compost in suitable systems, something like that.